Creating a VM storage profile and enabling it
VM storage profiles are a way of categorizing storage based on the type/capability of the storage. For example, LUNs thin provisioned, wherein Thin Provisioned Volume, being a capability, can be categorized so that VMs running applications that do not demand first-write performance can be placed on these datastores. The first-write performance could be impacted on a thin provisioned volume because the volume should be increased in size before the data is first written to it.
In this recipe we will learn how to create a VM storage profile by using the System Storage Profiles and User-defined Storage Profiles.
How to do it...
The following procedure explains how to create VM storage profiles. For the sake of demonstration we will create two VM storage profiles, one for a system storage profile: and the other for the user-defined storage profile.
From the inventory Home, click on VM Storage Profiles, which should take you to the storage profiles administration...
